BLEACHED: “The record is about searching for positivity through the dark sludge of life”

When they were teenagers, sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin built a riotous reputation as part of a ’00s downtown scene based around the Smell, a venue they describe as “a magical hole-in-the-wall.” Their band, Mika Miko, informed other local heroes including No Age and Abe Vigoda. “If the Smell hadn’t existed, I would have become a completely different person.”